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Gambia granted AGOA visa

afrol News, 9 May - The United States government has granted The Gambia a textile visa which allows the country to export textile and garment products to the U.S. duty free and quota free under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA).

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Equatorial Guinean leader tops Africa's media predators

afrol News, 2 May - President Teodoro Obiang Nguema of the oil-rich "Kuwait of Africa" has topped the Paris-based Reporters sans frontières (RSF) list of press predators in Africa.

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Senegal adjusts Gambia's internet bandwidth capacity

afrol News, 30 April - Senegal's national telecommunications company [SONATEL] has agreed to adjust The Gambia's internet bandwidth capacity from 34 megabits to 68 megbits by the end of April this year.

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Gambia warns against crossborder trade

afrol News, 15 April - Gambian farmers have been warned to desist from selling their cereals and grains to "traders from the sub-region" instead of the government-controlled company.

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Gambian police went missing

afrol News, 7 April - After a bitter altercation with the government, a Gambian police officer has reportedly gone missing. This development comes on the heels of Momodou Lamin Dampha's detention at the police headquarters in the capital Banjul.

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Gambia’s electoral chief fined

afrol News, 19 March - A regional court has found the former Gambian Chief Electoral Officer of guilty of forgery. Kawsu Ceesay was ordered to pay US $2,000, or in default goes to jail for thee months.

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Gambia's agric minister fired

afrol News, 12 March - Dr Kanja Sanneh, The Gambia's Minister of Agriculture, has become the latest casualty of President Yahya Jammeh's hiring and firing spree.

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Gambia editor returns to dock

afrol News, 28 February - The former editor of the 'Daily Observer', a pro-government newspaper, was back in the dock at the Banjul Magistrate's Courts to answer charges of publishing false information.

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Expelled firm's chief arraigned

afrol News, 22 February - The manager of the expelled Australian mining firm [Carnegie Minerals] has been arraigned before the Banjul High Court, charged with four counts of mineral offences.

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Terrorist risks deportation

afrol News, 21 February - A convicted Gambian terrorist, Basiru Gassama, risks deportation to his native country after he had served two years in UK prisons.

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Tortured journalist flees Gambia

afrol News, 19 February - A Sierra Leonean journalist, Mohamed Oury Bah, was forced to flee The Gambia after he has had his share of persecution in the hands of the country's notoriously feared National Intelligence Agency (NIA).

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Gambia probes expelled firm

afrol News, 14 February - Gambian authorities have launched an investigation into the operations of an Australian mining firm, Carnegie Minerals, in their country.

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Court decides Gambia case

afrol News, 30 January - The Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is expected to deliver its verdict on the case of a disappeared Gambian journalist, Chief Ebrima Manneh on Thursday.

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APRC sweeps Gambia polls

afrol News, 25 January - The Gambia's ruling Alliance for Patriotic, Re-orientation and Construction (APRC) swept 45 of the 58 contested council seats as well as winning two mayoral seats in Thursday's local government elections, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) declared.

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Gambia holds local elections

afrol News, 24 January - Over 350,000 Gambians have returned to the polls to elect their local government representatives - exactly a year after the country held national assembly polls. This time voters will elect mayors, municipal chairpersons and councillors.

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» 22.01.2008 - Gambia suspends RFI
» 21.01.2008 - Gambia discovers uranium
» 17.01.2008 - Gambia halts mining firm
» 14.01.2008 - Gambia gets alternative media
» 03.01.2008 - Gambia increases salaries
» 27.12.2007 - Gambia set for oil drilling
» 26.12.2007 - What's killing Gambian soldiers?
» 17.12.2007 - Editor's killers still at large
» 12.12.2007 - Ex-prisons chief convicted
» 07.12.2007 - Gambia telecoms finally gets board
» 28.11.2007 - Gambia sued over torture
» 23.11.2007 - Gambia judgment rescheduled
» 21.11.2007 - CHOGM to suspend Gambia
» 20.11.2007 - MFWA petitions bulldozers
» 19.11.2007 - Gambia's torture leader falls

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